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CiteScore:
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Impact Factor:
1.992ℹImpact Factor:2017: 1.992The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

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Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Marie Curie

November 7th 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie. In this Virtual Special Issue, we celebrate with a look back at her remarkable career and the impacts she has had on modern science. Marie Curie was the co-discoverer (with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) of the new elements polonium and radium, and one of a handful of scientists who ushered in the birth of nuclear science at the turn of the 20th century. During her lifetime, she was rewarded for these accomplishments in basic science with two Nobel Prizes; the first in physics in 1903 and the second in chemistry in 1911. These contributions were matched by her accomplishments and leadership in applied radiation sciences. She can be considered the founder of the disciplines of radiochemistry and radiologic technology, and one of the world’s first medical physicists. Her example has inspired multiple generations of women, many of whom have made major contributions to the physical and health sciences.

We include in this Virtual Special Issue a review and retrospective on Marie Curie by Dr. Bert Coursey, consulting editor to Applied Radiation and Isotopes. Over his 40 years of association with Applied Radiation and Isotopes, he has collected literature on Marie Curie and her contributions to standards of radioactivity. We have also reached out to scores of journals published by Elsevier to ask the Editors to provide their contributions relating to Marie Curie and her lasting legacy. Listed here are 20 articles provided by various journals.

These will be made freely available online until the end of June 2018.

Citations for theVirtual Section of 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marie Curie

Radiochemistry and measurements techniques

For Marie Curie, the field of science that is now called “radiochemistry” was her primary interest during her entire professional career. She collaborated with her peers in chemistry and physics to develop chemical separation techniques and design radiometric measurements of the sources. This selection of articles on radiochemistry and measurement techniques is focused to some extent on the radioisotopes of radium and polonium. Frederick Soddy’s discovery of isotopes of the elements in 1915 showed that the mesothorium which was also useful in therapy was in fact a radioisotope of radium (228Ra). Marie Curie would be quite pleased to see current applications of the radium and polonium isotopes. But, she would, one expects, be dismayed about the use of the 210Po in an international poisoning of a dissident.

The current practice of medical physics has a strong foundation in Marie Curie’s pioneering efforts in radiation therapy – currently used for millions of cancer patients worldwide – and in diagnostic radiological imaging – which is used in tens of millions of imaging procedures. The articles cited here provide a general overview of the extent and impact of her work. During her lifetime, she saw the field of medical physics expand to include use of x-ray diagnostics to plan radiation therapy procedures. Her early contributions to teaching radiologists and collaborating with medical researchers hastened this expansion.
The radiation therapy with radioactive seeds - originally called endocurietherapy – has evolved beyond the use of radium needles and radon seeds. Newer designs of brachytherapy sources with radionuclides such as 192Ir, 103Pd and 125I continue to provide very effective treatment in many applications.

The field of nuclear medicine was born in the decade after Marie Curie died in 1934. But, her legacy of research in radiochemistry and her collaboration with her daughter and son-in-law, Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, presaged the current practices in radionuclide production, radiopharmacy and radiobiodistribution. It is believed that she died following a lifetime of exposure to radium and its daughters. She would, one expects, be very pleased to see how new radium isotopes and other alpha-particle emitting radionuclides are being employed in modern cancer therapy.

Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman, was the laureate of two Nobel Prizes, the first woman in Europe to obtain the degree of Doctor of Science, and opened the way for women to enter fields which had been previously reserved for men only. As a teacher, collaborator and as a role model, her example continues to inspire the public, and in particular young women who are considering a career in science and technology.